[Lyric] The Plumb Line (Carrie Newcomer)

[VERSE 1]
It’s a world of light and a world of mist
The place we fell and the way we kissed
What I saw and all I missed
Voices howl and voices sing
In a landscape filled with broken things
In the troubled water and rising wings

[Chorus]
I didn't know that I could be this blind
I didn't plan to live in these trouble times
But here I am, here I am
Holding on to the plumb line

[VERSE 2]
Sometimes you hunt the bear, sometimes the bear hunts you
Sometimes you’re the foot, other times thе shoe
Some days the only way out is through
Thеre's a tree in the center of each acorn
There's a quiet place in every raging storm
Something ending and being born
[Chorus]
I didn't know that I could be this blind
I didn't plan to live in these trouble times
But here I am, here I am
Holding on to the plumb line

[INSTRUMENTAL]

[BRIDGE]
I don't know why some fall so hard
Why some questions go unspoken
Why some hearts shatter into shards
And others break open, open

[VERSE 3]
I can drive and you can read the map
On the long quiet road called there and back
In every mended thing there was once a crack
It’s a world of rain and a world of stone
I'll rest in all that I still don't know
What I'll embrace and I’ll let go

[Chorus]
I didn't know that I could be this blind
I didn't plan to live in these trouble times
But here I am, here I am
Holding on to the plumb line